Yeah.
My defence is that I'm terrible at drawing anime from scratch.
I spent ages trying and settled with that.
( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:03, archived)

It can be a bit cheap and deceiving, though, really.
I mean, people say something like "Did you draw this?" and you say "Yes" and they're all like "Wow", but actually if you had said "No actually I kinda traced it really" they might've gone "Oh, well, okay that's still neat I guess."

I'm in no way saying tracing is bad, by the way. I don't want to control what people post on b3ta. That'd be STOOPIDS.
( Shada stay frosty oscar mike, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:10, archived)

I'm not trying to be deceiving.
But that doesn't mean I haven't drawn it.
And it's not as if I've put no effort into it, because I have.
( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:12, archived)

well then don't call it drawing.
problem solved.
( Just Flange Eiwit, the mighty ENDOSPERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:11, archived)

Well I still drew it, didn't I?
"Did you draw that?"
"No, it magically appeared of its own accord"?
( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:13, archived)

Jamaica!

( The Great Architect, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:16, archived)

"Did you draw that?"
"No, I traced it"
( Shada stay frosty oscar mike, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:17, archived)

But it's still the physical act of drawing it!
Tracing is a kind of drawing!
( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:22, archived)

It's not, though, is it? It's a kind of copying.
You insist it took time and effort, but that time and effort was spent tracing over something which took far more time and effort. IT'S DILUTING. THE DILUTING OF EFFORT. EFFORTLUTING. AND LUTING TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT. D:
( Shada stay frosty oscar mike, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:29, archived)